Category: Percussion

Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB Build Guide

Here are the build notes for my Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to Arduino, see the Getting Started pages. Bill of Materials Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield … Continue reading Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB Build Guide →

Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB

I've built up an Arduino Uno shield for my Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI. This includes a proper buffered input stage for six inputs and output to TRS MIDI. Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB Build Guide Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage … Continue reading Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI Shield PCB →

Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI

After playing with my Arduino Euclidean Gate Sequencer I started to think about how to turn that into MIDI. One option, naturally, is to add MIDI to the sequencer itself, but I thought the more versatile approach would be to build a second Arduino that took trigger pulses and turned them into MIDI drum messages. This … Continue reading Arduino Drum Trigger to MIDI →

Arduino OPL FM Drum Machine

I've finally returned to having a look at my Arduino OPL FM Synth.  This time I'm taking a look at the drum channels. https://youtu.be/IBDu9h4716U Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials for the main … Continue reading Arduino OPL FM Drum Machine →

Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 4 – Drum Machine

This post talks through the porting and operating of a commonly used sketch for an Arduino drum machine, showing how to get it up and running on the Arduino Make Your Uno Synth Shield.. The full index of projects and my personal build notes can be found here: Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth. If you spend … Continue reading Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 4 – Drum Machine →

Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Sequencer

This project combines the Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine with the code from the Arduino VS1003 Drum Machine and the buttons from the Analog Keypad Tone Controller. https://youtu.be/e_hVGe0Z_mE Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials … Continue reading Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Sequencer →

Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine

There is still a lot to explore with the Mozzi synthesis library, so today I wanted to look at the "sample" options - getting the library to play pre-recording samples of sounds. https://youtu.be/eB7vzF_4zxY Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage to expensive … Continue reading Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine →

Arduino VS1003 Drum Machine

I picked up some cheap matrix button boards a while back and wanted to use them as some kind of MIDI controller, so linked up with the Arduino MIDI VS1003 Synth I thought I'd make a self-contained simple drum machine. https://youtu.be/xzDqOiP5L4g Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I … Continue reading Arduino VS1003 Drum Machine →